In traditional SCW environments, related web services are integrated into business processes. Web service still brings less than expected benefits to small corporations and end-users for two reasons: 1) the web service only focuses on data level and is difficult to implement the presentation-centric business contexts. 2) The small corporations and end-users usually do not have enough IT compete...

With the success of sequence-to-sequence model, end-to-end task-oriented dialogue systems (EToDs) have obtained remarkable progress. However, most existing EToDs are limited to single KB settings where dialogues can be supported by a KB, which is still far from satisfying requirements some complex applications (multi-KBs setting). In this work, we first empirically show that single-KB fail work...

In this paper, we study the market-oriented online bi-objective service scheduling problem for pleasingly parallel jobs with variable resources in cloud environments, from perspective of SaaS (Software-as-as-Service) providers who provide job-execution services. The main process services clouds is: a provider purchases instances IaaS to schedule end users’ and charges users accordingly. This ha...

In this paper, the needs for specialized end-to-end communication services oriented to satisfy the QoS requirements of current and future multimedia applications are raised. Face to the complexity involved in the wide deployment of QoS guaranteed network services as well as the reduced set of services offered by traditional and recent transport protocols, a QoS-oriented transport protocol (QoST...

An increasing number of technology users are participating in enduser development (EUD) activities, oriented towards crafting and customizing their technology in use. Embedded within a larger culture of participation, these activities open up exciting possibilities for end user empowerment and creativity, but new challenges have emerged as a result. End users are now threatened by participation...

This paper presents a case for an intelligent agent based framework for knowledge discovery in a distributed healthcare environment comprising multiple heterogeneous healthcare data repositories. Data-mediated knowledge discovery, especially from multiple heterogeneous data resources, is a tedious process and imposes significant operational constraints on end-users. We demonstrate that autonomo...